From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
Cc: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
arstoffel@gmail.com, 59956@debbugs.gnu.org,
John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
Subject: bug#59956: 29.0.60: Failure when completing arguments in Eshell after variable interpolation
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:07:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1qoww0tg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a83d47c6f46e28b9d36d@heytings.org> (Gregory Heytings's message of "Mon, 19 Dec 2022 01:19:32 +0000")
> Hmmm... So I guess it would be better, instead of replacing lists (and in
> general non-strings) by their string representation, and instead of always
> looking at an unexpanded argument, to look at the unexpanded argument only
> when the expanded argument is not a string? E.g. if $foo is "-u" we would
> use "-u", but if $foo is (b a r) we would use "$foo".
Sounds like just another way to work around the problem.
I think the only "real" fix is to change the API so the callers can say
what kind of data they're looking for.
The more I think about it, the more my workaround sounds appealing.
My main remaining question is whether there exist code out there that
relies on the current behavior.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-19 3:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-11 1:25 bug#59956: 29.0.60: Failure when completing arguments in Eshell after variable interpolation Jim Porter
2022-12-11 7:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-11 8:56 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-12-11 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-12 22:21 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-12 22:37 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-12-12 23:27 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-16 11:20 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-12-16 6:09 ` Jim Porter
2022-12-16 14:13 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-16 14:28 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-19 0:54 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-19 1:19 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-19 2:15 ` Jim Porter
2022-12-19 3:07 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-12-19 15:00 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-19 16:22 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-19 22:22 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-21 6:32 ` Jim Porter
2022-12-21 9:28 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-29 22:02 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-19 10:31 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-12-19 16:21 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-19 18:04 ` Jim Porter
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